Day 2 Journal Entry

Today was day 2 of the SPRINT project with Comcast. Our day began by meeting in the morning in Hayward and sharing sketches and discussing ideas we had came up with on our own the previous night through solo research. We also met up with group 1a to talk about the research we had found and had an overall discussion about our progress and how we understood the brief, as well as how we would make sure our consultancy had products that related to each other. Around noon we went to Kanbar to continue discussing our ideas while also handing out the surveys we had created to random students and faculty. Between the physical copies we handed out and the online version of the survey we shared through social networking, we received over 100 filled out surveys. We went over the information from these surveys and made a list of similar answers we found throughout them and worked on relating them to the ideas we had already come up with, while creating new ideas in the process. We also met back up with team 1a and watched some youtube videos from Microsoft dealing with futuristic products for inspiration. We spent the evening in the DEC building working in the same room at team 1a, bouncing ideas off of each other but also working separately, drawing up ideas on the white board trying to narrow down some of the main points that had stood out to us from our research and discussions. After a last discussion with team 1a talking about where we stand and what we plan on having for tomorrow, I gave my group members the task of working outside of the studio on some initial sketches on physical design for the products we had in mind, while also thinking of ways that all of these products will tie together, both interface-wise and physically. We also continued to upload to our team blog: http://comcastsprint1b.blogspot.com

Carter and team 1b